I've had problems with that approach in the past including: -- the email to text gateways operated by the cell carriers can be very slow -- I've found that the gateways often mess up the formatting of the message, depending on the gateway it might wind up in the SMS with things like "SUBJ:" and "BODY" and junk like that cluttering up your message. -- determining the correct email gateway to use from the cellphone number is no longer reliable. It used to be you could look up with the area code and exchange and determine which carrier issued the number and then know which email gateway to use. Well, actually you can still do that but with cellphone number portability, you don't know which carrier currently services the number, you just know which carrier issued the number. So you wind up having to ask your customer to provide their phone number and specify which carrier they use.
I recently did an integration to a SMS gateway. They have a variety of APIs including HTTPS, XML, SOAP, etc. They have a callback mechanism so your app gets status updates on the delivery status of each message. Only draw back is it cost $0.03 per message. There may be cheaper ones out there, I'm not sure as I got tired of looking around and three cents was reasonable for my usage. It just depends on if you're willing to live with the limitations, then the email approach is fine. If you need something cleaner and more reliable, then I suggest subscribing to a sms gateway service. On Apr 7, 1:21 am, MajorProgamming <sefira...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently developing an app that will send text message > reminders. I was thinking of using each carrier's email gateway to > handle the messages. Are there any potential scaling problems with > this method? > > (I plan on sending the text messages via the GAE Email system) > > Thank you, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
